{"query": "The Pharisee and the Publican", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f9baa8b824f1", "title": "The Pharisee and the Publican", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Two go up to pray; one with himself recounts his virtues and despises the other; one beats his breast and says God be merciful to me a sinner; the second goes home justified.\n\nFailure mode: Prayer tha"}, {"id": "card_src_book_3548", "title": "The Pharisee and the Publican — John Bunyan", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Pharisee and the Publican, by John Bunyan. Subjects: Pharisee and the publican (Parable) -- Early works to 1800. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3548"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_138_6", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 138:6", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 138:6 — David here comforts himself with three things: - \nI. The favour God bears to his humble people (Psa 138:6): Though the Lord be high, and neither needs any of his creatures nor can be"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_26_6", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 26:6", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 26:6 — In these verses,\nI. David mentions, as further evidence of his integrity, the sincere affection he had to the ordinances of God, the constant care he took about them, and the pleasure"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_luke_11_37", "title": "Matthew Henry on Luke 11:37", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Luke 11:37 — Christ here says many of those things to a Pharisee and his guests, in a private conversation at table, which he afterwards said in a public discourse in the temple (Mt. 23); for what "}, {"id": "card_c_4151157e29b9", "title": "A parable — Pride praise ↔ The Pharisee and the Publican", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "\"He that humbleth himself shall be exalted\" (Lk 18:9-14).  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_n_1a8808bd0681", "title": "Easton: Publican", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who farmed the taxes (e.g., Zacchaeus, Luke 19:2) to be levied from a town or district, and thus undertook to pay to the supreme government a certain amount. In order to collect the taxes, the pub"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_luke_5_27", "title": "Matthew Henry on Luke 5:27", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Luke 5:27 — All this, except the last verse, we had before in Matthew and Mark; it is not the story of any miracle in nature wrought by our Lord Jesus, but it is an account of some of the wonders o"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_matthew_9_9", "title": "Matthew Henry on Matthew 9:9", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Matthew 9:9 — In these verses we have an account of the grace and favour of Christ to poor publicans, particularly to Matthew. What he did to the bodies of people was to make way for a kind design "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_mark_8_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Mark 8:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Mark 8:1 — We had the story of a miracle very like this before, in this gospel (Mar 6:35), and of this same miracle (Mat 15:32), and here is little or no addition or alternation as to the circumsta"}, {"id": "card_n_9aa445f45094", "title": "Easton: Gamaliel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reward of God. (1.) A chief of the tribe of Manasseh at the census at Sinai (Num. 1:10; 2:20; 7:54, 59). (2.) The son of rabbi Simeon, and grandson of the famous rabbi Hillel. He was a Pharisse, and t"}, {"id": "card_n_f434f3cdb669", "title": "Easton: Matthew", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gift of God, a common Jewish name after the Exile. He was the son of Alphaeus, and was a publican or tax-gatherer at Capernaum. On one occasion Jesus, coming up from the side of the lake, passed the c"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_philippians_3_4", "title": "Matthew Henry on Philippians 3:4", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Philippians 3:4 — The apostle here proposes himself for an example of trusting in Christ only, and not in his privileges as an Israelite.\nI. He shows what he had to boast of as a Jew and a Pharisee"}, {"id": "card_n_2fc2a8892c45", "title": "Philippians 3", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.\n2. Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the fa"}, {"id": "card_n_6acc64eb6306", "title": "Easton: Zacchaeus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Pure, a superintendant of customs; a chief tax-gather (publicanus) at Jericho (Luke 19:1-10). “The collection of customs at Jericho, which at this time produced and exported a considerable quantity of"}, {"id": "card_n_05b8128f5115", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_vi: Let not things future trouble thee.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Let not things future trouble thee. For if necessity so require that they come to pass, thou shalt (whensoever that is) be provided for them with the same reason, by which whatsoever is now present, i"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_luke_12_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Luke 12:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Luke 12:1 — We find here, I. A vast auditory that was got together to hear Christ preach. The scribes and Pharisees sought to accuse him, and do him mischief; but the people, who were not under the"}, {"id": "card_n_048bd5e3c62d", "title": "Easton: Samuel, Books of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The LXX. translators regarded the books of Samuel and of Kings as forming one continuous history, which they divided into four books, which they called “Books of the Kingdom.” The Vulgate version foll"}, {"id": "card_n_00531d1d59cc", "title": "Revelation 5", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.\n2. I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open"}, {"id": "card_n_02ac6f811c16", "title": "Easton: Paul", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Saul (q.v.) was born about the same time as our Lord. His circumcision-name was Saul, and probably the name Paul was also given to him in infancy “for use in the Gentile world,” as “Saul” would be hi"}]}